Investigations into the capital's biggest robbery has opened a can of worms. Police sources revealed that the heist may be linked to the IPL spot-fixing scandal and that the looted cash could amount to Rs 15-20 crore, a part of which was meant for payoffs to bettors.
Late on Wednesday night, bookie Rajesh Kalra confessed that the entire money was his. Earlier, it was believed that a major portion of the cash belonged to his business partner, Rahul Ahuja. The duo kept downplaying the have owned up for 7.69 crore. They initially had stuck to the six crore figure.
Call detail records, coupled with the interrogation of Kalra and the occupants of the Honda City (which was carrying the cash) has revealed that Kalra had close links with other bookies and was "very active" in betting circles. He also has close links with Chandresh Jain alias Jupiter, a prominent bookie and jeweller based in Jaipur and London bookie Sanjeev Chawla, police said. A police team has left for Jaipur to probe the betting connection.
"We are probing if the robbery was fallout of the police crackdown on betting syndicates. Neither Kalra nor Ahuja were questioned during the IPL scandal. Some bookies have told us that they believed Kalra had been tipping off the special cell off about other bookies. They did not sound very pleased with him," an officer said.
The police have also got a tip-off that the Jaguar car which the actor Bindu Dara Singh was using at the time of his arrest belonged to Rajesh Kalra. "We are yet to verify this information," an officer said.
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